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  China Ousts Nine Military Lawmakers as Xi’s Defense Purge Widens Xi Jinping Photographer: Ken Ishii/Pool/Getty Images February 27, 2026 at 12:58 AM GMT+11 Updated on February 27, 2026 at 1:51 PM GMT+11 Save Translate 3:08 China removed nine military lawmakers from its national parliament in the latest sign that President Xi Jinping’s purge of key defense establishment personnel continues to widen. The country’s top legislative body revoked the membership of five generals along with four other officials, state-run Xinhua News Agency  reported  on Thursday. The report cited a notice from the National People’s Congress Standing Committee that gave no reason for the dismissals. The ousters shrink the military delegation to the National People’s Congress to 243, the smallest since at least 1974, just days before lawmakers are set to gather to review government work and a development plan for the next five years. Beijing hasn’t yet publicly named replacements for the affected...
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  CHINESE ACADEMIC CRAP "As China has climbed the rank­ings, many crit­ics have poin­ted to the indus­trial scale of fraud­u­lent or poor-qual­ity research, driven in part by incent­ives that reward pub­lic­a­tion volume in ten­ure and pro­mo­tion decisions. Even met­rics designed to meas­ure a piece of research’s impact, such as cita­tions, have at times been dis­tor­ted by Chinese-au­thored papers being unne­ces­sar­ily cited by fel­low aca­dem­ics. Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retrac­tion Watch, which tracks pub­lic­a­tion trends, says: “China’s gov­ern­ment has been intens­ively gam­ing those met­rics using incent­ives that have led to wide­spread mis­con­duct, includ­ing paper mill activ­ity.” Paper mills are com­pan­ies paid to cre­ate fake stud­ies." Menu Back Financial Times Financial Times UK 27 Feb 2026 Buttons.Search Options The ascent of China’s uni­versit­ies Dec­ades of invest­ment by Beijing have trans­formed the coun­try’s aca­demic insti­tu­tions des­pite ling...
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